Labour category: 1663 books
Blue Collar Frayed
Working Men in Tomorrow’s Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us, the query that hurt my head and heart as his baggy eyes held mine: where does someone like me fit, now?’
Jennifer Rayner knows a thing or two about blue-collar blokes: her brother,...
The Working Poor
Invisible in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.
As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most...
Janesville
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * **Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ***800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best...
Someplace Like America
Tales from the New Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness....
Talking Safety
A User's Guide to World Class Safety Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Talking Safety summarises in a short user-friendly read the key element of safety leadership - the management and supervisor 'walk and talk'. Safety standards are set by a combination of three things: first, the basic systems: risk assessments, procedures, training, inductions and maintenance; second,...
Designing Reality
How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything
Two digital revolutions--computing and communication--have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are...
Drawing the Line
The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take pride...
Working
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe
A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller
Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look...
Looking Up at the Bottom Line
The Struggle for the Living Wage
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Remarkable! An energizing, engaging book that can lead to the end of homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers. This book takes off where all the other minimum wage, living wage books end.
Michael Stoops, National Civil Rights Organizer for the National Coalition for the Homeless
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I Am Not a Tractor!
How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields:...
Life on the Line
One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
"Engaging--. Terrific--. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority."--The New York Times
As a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada, Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto...
Autoworkers Under the Gun
A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The bureau of labor statistics reports that in 2008 there were 15.3 million union members in the United States; 400,000 of which belong to the United Auto Workers
Written by a long time labor leader with first hand insights into the topic
The economic crisis has put increased pressure on organized labor, prompting a growing interest in the subject
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
An account of economics at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a rhetorical piece written for the generally educated individual of the 18th century - advocating a free market economy as more productive and more beneficial to society.